In timing that is certainly good for a Republican Party looking for a last-minute rally ahead of the midterm elections, CBS announced Wednesday that it will air a town hall […]

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During the vaudeville era, the Cherry Sisters of Marion, Iowa, built a reputation as the worst act to ever grace the stage. But that didn’t stop crowds from packing into […]

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A woman in Asheville, North Carolina, fled her home when floodwaters arrived at her door. Soon, her world was upended. Her apartment, she later learned, had been washed away by […]

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Seated in a row with the most influential leaders in artificial intelligence, President Donald Trump announced that he was renaming the technology itself. “It’s not artificial. We all agree on […]

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The laborious mega media deal that had to clear hurdles and dodge obstacles and arm-wrestle in court and face high-profile pushback from some of entertainment’s biggest names finally became official […]

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How will you learn that the world is ending? Maybe your phone buzzes with a news alert. Maybe you open Google News and see the headlines. But it’s also likely […]

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In a warm-up speech before President Donald Trump addressed Oklahoma rally-goers, Homeland Security secretary Markwayne Mullin told the crowd in his home state that Trump took a financial hit to […]

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This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]

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This article was originally published in the Student Press Report, a national news desk highlighting the successes and challenges facing college journalism. As a recent college journalism graduate transitioning into […]

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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (October 6, 2026) — News audiences are increasingly turning to social media and short-form video for news. But converting your reporting into a TikTok, Instagram Reel or YouTube […]

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It has been an uncertain time at CNN over the past several months. As it became clearer that Paramount Skydance would acquire CNN’s parent company, Warner Bros. Discovery, a big […]

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The ethics rules at most mainstream newsrooms create an odd dichotomy: Journalists are some of the most well-read and informed people in the world, and yet we generally are not […]

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Polls show midterm voters are angry that the Iran war — which President Donald Trump told them would be over in a matter of weeks — has led to higher […]

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ST. PETERSBURG, Florida (October 5, 2026) — The Poynter Institute and Investigative Reporters and Editors have been named the recipients of the 2026 Internet Archive Hero Award, for their work […]

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President Donald Trump spent Saturday evening near Dayton, Ohio, giving a speech as he tried to rally Republicans for the upcoming midterm elections. It was the usual Trump fare — […]

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It was Kayla’s professors who said her voice wasn’t right for journalism. A young Black woman fresh out of grad school, she was from the Bronx and spoke with a […]

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The big mega media deal of Paramount acquiring Warner Bros. Discovery is expected to be finalized next week. Paramount owns CBS News and Warner Bros. Discovery owns CNN. So the […]

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After President Donald Trump announced Sept. 18 on Truth Social that he was banning CNN, Politico and MS NOW from the White House because they write “fake news,” many of […]

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There’s no “Field of Dreams” for local independent publishers, no “if you build it, they will come,” where the “it” is powerful, critical journalism and the “they” is subscribers happy […]

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President Donald Trump had a busy day Wednesday. He spent part of it bragging about how he changed the name of the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America. […]

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Community NEWS Act on Wednesday, creating refundable tax credits for local news organizations that retain and hire journalists. Steven Waldman, president of Rebuild Local […]

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In February 2022, Russia’s army crossed into Ukraine and launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine that continues today. In the first days following the invasion, I had just started my […]

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The Republican senator thought he was going to dunk on his opponent. Instead, he ended up flat on his back in a wild moment on Capitol Hill on Tuesday. Get […]

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This story began, as they often do, with a tip. In the spring of 2023, Emily Baumgaertner Nunn heard from a high-ranking official who was struggling to contain a problem […]

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This column is part of the Indianapolis Public Editor project, a pilot program designed to test whether the presence of a public editor who analyzes local coverage can elevate audience […]

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Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested while reporting in Russia on March 29, 2023. When he learned he was being charged with espionage, he was, believe it or […]

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There are works of journalism that resonate many years after publication. Lane DeGregory’s haunting story for the Tampa Bay Times on a family trying to help a young girl recover […]

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Weeks before the midterm elections, the Trump administration released a series of taxpayer-funded ads prominently featuring President Donald Trump promoting his agenda, and Democratic lawmakers called them illegal propaganda. One […]

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Artificial intelligence is making editors do strange things, like second-guess skills built over entire careers or blanch at the sight of punctuation marks. This manifested at the recent ACES: The […]

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It has been a troubling couple of weeks in the media as President Donald Trump, in perhaps his most brazen act as president, banned prominent news outlets from covering his […]

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